Quotes About Society

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

Women are only told that they resemble angels when they are young and beautiful; consequently, it is their persons, not their virtues, that procure them homage.

Everyone is so preoccupied by youth. People talk about how the movie business is a microcosm of the bigger picture, or life imitating art, but the business is guilty for getting women out of the way.

Women are cursed, and men are the proof.

From the ownership of women the concept of ownership extends itself to include the products of their industry, and so there arises the ownership of things as well as of persons.

Very few women wait for Mr. Right. Most women take the first and worst Mr. Wrong.

Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.

Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men.

Observe this, that tho a woman swear, forswear, lie, dissemble, back-bite, be proud, vain, malicious, anything, if she secures the main chance, she's still virtuous; that's a maxim.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

The situation of women and men is not comparable to worker-boss or black and white.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

In a place like Afghanistan where the society is completely segregated, women have access to women. Men cannot always photograph women and cannot get the access that I get.

Feminists say 60 percent of the country's wealth is in the hands of women. They're letting men hold the other 40 percent because their handbags are full.

Women were brought up to believe that men were the answer. They weren't. They weren't even one of the questions.

All men must marry much younger women

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

I like to describe myself as a proudly visible member of the most invisible segments of our society - older women.

Our society's strong emphasis on dieting and self-image can sometimes lead to eating disorders. We know that more than 5 million Americans suffer from eating disorders, most of them young women.

When it defines man as the enemy, feminism is alienating women from their own bodies.

Men are the cause of women not loving one another. [Fr., Les hommes sont la cause que les femmes ne s'aiment point.]

Once women begin to question the inevitability of their subordination and to reject the conventions formerly associated with it, they can no longer retreat to the safety of those conventions.